PuppetDB Upgrade Question from 2.1.1-1 to 2.7.2-1

[Peter Krawetzky]

I'm doing a minor upgrade from 2.1.1-1 to 2.7.2-1 and was wondering if the size of the database makes a difference in how long the upgrade takes?  It's currently managing approximately 3200+ nodes in production.  Testing in our lab environment did not run long as we only manage about 500 nodes there.  Was wondering if there is a correlation between the number of nodes and the upgrade process since it's really not described well in the documentation.

Thanks.

[Wyatt Alt]

Hey Peter,

PuppetDB never released a 2.7 series (highest 2.x went was 2.3.x), so
it's tough to answer your question specifically. In general, the size of
your data (for which number of nodes is a proxy) can definitely have a
large effect on migration times, but it largely depends on the specific
upgrade. Structured facts landed sometime in 2.x after 2.1 and was a
relatively heavy migration, but there are many other examples.

Wyatt